how are we all? summer holidays are officially dull! not been up to much, just got back from an organ course with Margret Phillips, which was ok. i listened to evensong, and i thought it was ok, but that the psalms were a bit odd..... id never heard that prolonged penultimate note,sylable or wotever it was! hmmm....

Hi just joined the Forum so a big Hello to everyone...
Went to the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford on Monday as the BBC were recording the service for Wednesday's usual 'live' choral evensong.
The anthem was fantastic.... Wesley's Blessed be the God and Father...
The psalm was 49 which is one of my fav's... although the choirs sung it well , i much prefer the setting by Waimisley... but each to their own i guess....
Hope you enjoy it too

Anecdote: I went to an Evensong at St. Mary's several years ago. Between the Magnificat and second reading, the fire alarm went off! No one was really sure was to do until the Dean announced in a wobbly Scottish-accented voice: "we should probably evacuate". So the men and boys choir headed off somewhere past the high altar, the rest of us made for the western exits... then the alarm ceased. Everybody went back to their seats, the second reading commenced and all was well.

I enjoy reading all comments posted here about CE, though I rarely get the chance to listen to it myself these days. Occasionally I need to 'work from home' on a Wednesday afternoon, and -- by complete coincidence, naturally -- this just happens to be the day a favourite choir is singing, or a favourite canticle setting being done. I've never managed to get the BBC Radio Player to work (probably disabled on my office machine?), so I guess I'm stuck until I get broadband at home . Anyway, keep posting!